1410.33—Contract modifications.

(a) As agreed between CCC and the participant, a CRP contract may be modified in order to:
(1) Decrease acreage in the CRP;
(2) Permit the production of an agricultural commodity under extraordinary circumstances during a crop year on all or part of the land subject to the CRP contract as determined by the Deputy Administrator;
(3) Facilitate the practical administration of the CRP;
(4) During the final year of the CRP contract's term, facilitate a transition of land subject to the contract from a retired or retiring owner or operator to a beginning or socially-disadvantaged farmer or rancher for the purpose of returning some or all of the land into production using sustainable grazing or crop production methods; provided that for this purpose “sustainable grazing and crop production methods” will be considered, as determined by the Deputy Administrator, to be methods that would be designed as part of an overall plan defined on an ecosystem level to be useful in the creation of integrated systems of plant and animal production practices that have a site specific application that would:
(i) Meet human needs for food and fiber;
(ii) Enhance the environment and the natural resource base;
(iii) Use nonrenewable resources efficiently; and
(iv) Sustain the economic viability of farming operation; or
(5) Accomplish the goals and objectives of the CRP, as determined by the Deputy Administrator.
(b) CCC may modify CRP contracts to add, delete, or substitute practices when, as determined by the Deputy Administrator:
(1) The installed practice failed to adequately provide for the desired environmental benefit through no fault of the participant; or
(2) The installed measure deteriorated because of conditions beyond the control of the participant; and
(3) Another practice will achieve at least the same level of environmental benefit.
(c) Offers to extend contracts may be made as allowed by law.
(d) CCC may terminate a CRP contract if the participant agrees to such termination and CCC determines such termination to be in the public interest.

Code of Federal Regulations

[68 FR 24835, May 8, 2003, as amended at 75 FR 27169, May 14, 2010]